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> [“The Brontë sisters have a renewed hold upon our imagination. They were gifted, well-educated, especially self-educated, and desperate. Their seriousness and poverty separated them forever from the interests and follies of respectable young girls. It was Charlotte’s goal to represent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hardwick/the-bront-sisters-have-a-renewed-hold-upon-our-imagination-they-were/)

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## More by Elizabeth Hardwick

> [“Leonard Woolf’s endurance of Virginia’s famous frigidity is, we must suppose after the fact, altogether to his credit. Their honeymoon did not bring the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hardwick/leonard-woolf-s-endurance-of-virginia-s-famous-frigidity-is-we-must/)

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> [“The Brontë sisters have a renewed hold upon our imagination. They were gifted, well-educated, especially self-educated, and desperate. Their seriousness and poverty separated them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hardwick/the-bront-sisters-have-a-renewed-hold-upon-our-imagination-they-were/)

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> [Biographers, the quick in pursuit of the dead, research, organize, fill in, contradict, and make in this way a sort of completed picture puzzle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hardwick/biographers-the-quick-in-pursuit-of-the-dead-research-organize-fill/)

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> [Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hardwick/adversity-is-a-great-teacher-but-this-teacher-makes-us-pay-dearly-for/)

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> [I have come to the belief that there is not merely an accidental relationship between bad writing and routine sociological research, but a wonderfully…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hardwick/i-have-come-to-the-belief-that-there-is-not-merely-an-accidental/)

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> [“The large, gaping flaws in the construction of the stories--mad wives in the attic, strange apparitions in Belgium--are a representation of the life she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hardwick/the-large-gaping-flaws-in-the-construction-of-the-stories-mad-wives/)

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> [The greatest gift is a passion for reading.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hardwick/the-greatest-gift-is-a-passion-for-reading/)

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> [History ... with its long, leisurely, gentlemanly labors, the books arriving by post, the cards to be kept and filed, the sections to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hardwick/history-with-its-long-leisurely-gentlemanly-labors-the-books-arriving/)

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> [Sex, without society as its landscape, has never been of much interest to fiction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hardwick/sex-without-society-as-its-landscape-has-never-been-of-much-interest/)

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> [Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hardwick/self-love-is-an-idolatry-self-hatred-is-a-tragedy/)

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> [“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hardwick/the-greatest-gift-is-a-passion-for-reading-it-is-cheap-it-consoles-it/)

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> [Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hardwick/houses-of-evil-similarity-appeared-like-rows-of-disciplined/)

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> [Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel Beckett, embodies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hardwick/gertrude-stein-all-courage-and-will-is-a-soldier-of-minimalism-her/)

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> [“In those years I did not care to enjoy sex, only to have it. That is what seeing Alex again on Fifth Avenue brought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hardwick/in-those-years-i-did-not-care-to-enjoy-sex-only-to-have-it-that-is/)

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> [The private and serious drama of guilt is not often a useful one for fiction today and its disappearance, following perhaps the disappearance from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hardwick/the-private-and-serious-drama-of-guilt-is-not-often-a-useful-one-for/)

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